filePro data entry failing on restored 5.6.10D4 Linux server - SOLVED!!!

[Kenneth Brody]

On 1/29/2016 12:51 PM, Mike Schwartz via Filepro-list wrote:
[...]
>> with:
>>
>>       echo $file `date` >>/home/mjs/retime
>>       /u/appl/fp/dxmaint $file -ra -e
>>
>> (And what's the purpose of the "sleep 2" aside from slowing down the
>> rebuild?)
>>
>>>         cd ..
>>>    done
>>>    echo "Ended `date`" >>/home/mjs/retime
>> [...]
> HEY! I wasn't a very good Unix script writer; just getting started in
> the  80's! I was quite proud that I got this to work! :<))

Ah...  "I wrote this long ago, and never looked at it again."  btdt.

[...]
> The "sleep 2" used to cause the display to pause for 2 seconds so that I
> could catch the name of the index that was being rebuilt, just so I could
> estimate how much time was left when I was running this manually. At
 > American Can, when the Tandy 16 would go down, we always rebuilt the

But it's after the dxmaint command, meaning it'll show a blank screen after 
dxmaint exited, right?  (Maybe the TRS-16 Xenix version didn't clear the 
screen on exit?  It's been a few years since I've seen one of those.)

> before we let the users get back in. The old 8 MEG drives would "chirp" for

And they were "only" 12 inch platters!  So small and compact.  :-)

Now we've got non-volatile storage with 16,000 times the capacity on a card 
smaller than my pinky-nail, and less than 5% the cost.  (Or 750,000 times 
the storage, with 3-1/2 platters, also at less than 5% the cost.)

[...]
> Since then, I haven't looked at this script much. This script is on a
[...]
> I realize I could have rewritten this with the -RA option. It was just
> an  "if not broke don't fix" issue, but I guess this WAS broken and I will be
> reviewing it at all my old customers!

:-)

-- 
Kenneth Brody